Camera Deals

Plan your B&H shopping ahead (Holiday closing Thur-Sun)

If you are a regular B&H Photo customer, be sure to plan ahead your near-term purchases as B&H Photo will be closed for the upcoming Shavuos Holiday. Orders will be accepted until 2pm eastern Thursday May 28. B&H will reopen on Sunday May 31st and resume regular operations.

If you need something to be shipped this week, make sure you place your rush orders before 11:30am eastern on Thursday. For orders with standard shipping, the cutoff point is Wednesday at 6pm eastern time. And please keep in mind, it is Tuesday already on the east coast!

Headlines View of the Latest Deals

To make it easier to quickly scan for deals of interest, we have just created a "Headlines View" of the latest posts of this blog. You can quickly get to these from these places:

+ "Headlines" link at the top of every page. You will find it in the second row of the navigation links, in the rightmost position.

+ Archives section - you will find the links to this in the middle of the sidebar (right side of the screen on every page)

+ Bookmark the Headlines url and change it to the current month of interest, eg http://cameradeals.1001noisycameras.com/2009/05/index.html where "05" is May, "04" is April, "03" is March, etc, etc.

This could also be handy if you are researching price changes of a particular camera model over a period of time. Just use your browser's search functionality to search for the model name.

Below you will see a screenshot of how it looks right now. If you prefer the list without an empty line in-between the headlines, please let us know and we'll remove it! The one below is also a live link that points to the latest headlines for May.

If you prefer additional views or methods of presentation, please let us know.

Photography magazines specials

Amazon is running a new promotion on magazines, and it includes two photography magazines. We created a very detailed update at the main blog. We are trying to save time by minimizing duplication of work, so we are not posting the details here.

The daily-deal round-up is running behind schedule. But you can always check the latest specials at your own time and pace by checking the various retailers featured under the "Daily Deals" section of the sidebar on the right side of your screen.

Profiles in retailing: Circuit City and B&H Photo

We found this article posted at Inc.com in an orphaned Firefox tab. We are not sure for how many days it was left there, but it is a very interesting read. The author of the article compares and contrasts the approach to consumer electronics taken by Circuit City and B&H Photo, and tries to explain why B&H is so successful and Circuit City is so chapter-11.

Latest Camera Deals now on Twitter!

We have just created a Twitter feed for the Camera Deals blog, it automagically features the latest deals posted here over there, Twitter-style. This is done using Twitterfeed and it uses the RSS feed to do so.

It will have the headlines from this blog and nothing else. This was created as a convenience for Twitter users. It will be exactly the same deals you see here on this blog and in the RSS feed.

Our regular Twitter account will continue to be human-edited only, there are no automated feed updates there.

New feature: Price checks using StreetPrices.com

We have a new feature just added, we have added a price-check search box powered by StreetPrices.com. This will show the latest prices of select cameras using the Noisy co-branded page at StreetPrices.com.

This is not to be confused with the standard blog-content search box. We added big bold headers on top of each widget to prevent any potential confusion. If we need to create bigger fonts to make it more clear, please let us know :)

As indicated by the heavy compression, the following is a SCREENSHOT of how the top right sidebar of this blog looks. The top search-box searches the contents of the blog, the second one searches StreetPrices.com.

Maryland outlaws minimum price fixing!

This is great news for the consumer! We have posted about it in the main blog, we don't want to repost the same thing over again, so be sure to check it out at the main blog.

Unfortunately no more Buydig.com deals on this blog

Unfortunately we won't be posting any more BuyDig.com deals on this blog. Our affiliation was expired, and while we tried to find out why or if there was a problem, we got no answer. So unfortunately we won't be featuring any more BuyDig.com deals on this blog. All apologies, but this is beyond our control.

This is one of the many reasons why we have an annoyingly large number of retailers at the Noisy Mall.

No DSLR deals - instead two point and shoot specials

As we mentioned earlier, there were supposed to be two DSLR specials activating right now at Dell. Unfortunately as of right now, we cannot even find those two DSLR kits on the Dell website, let alone find the special prices. We will update this post if we have any updates. Considering the time, it is unlikely we are going to hear from anyone this late at night :(

It seems like they may have been replaced by the Sony Cybershot W300 for $210, and a blue Olympus Stylus 840 for $110.

All apologies for the confusion, unfortunately we made the mistake of assuming that the information provided by the Dell affiliate program was accurate :-(

Customer support pages for the Noisy blogs at Get Satisfaction

If you can any questions, problems, suggestions, and things like that for this or the other noisy blogs, now there is another option to let us know: We have created a page at GetSatisfaction.com, a Web 2.0 approach to customer service. We have pre-created "products" for the noisy blogs. So for example, if you have a question or problem with this specific blog, you can file it under the "Camera deals blog".

And of course, as always, you can always, send us a direct email using this handy contact form powered by Wooofooooo.

Who is killing the independent stores?

There is a new iteration of this popular discussion in the dpreview forums, started a couple of days ago. The discussion goes in many directions, from sales-tax to snobby salesmen, to stubborn business practices of two economies ago, to fickle penny-wise/pound-fool buyers, to entitlement issues by local stores, and everything in between. A pot of coffee is recommended, but if you are heavily invested in this argument, we highly recommend light decaf :)

Thanks to Serious Compacts!

A big thanks to Serious Compacts for their nice words about this noisy shopaholic blog earlier on Sunday! We are glad photographers are finding this blog helpful!